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debt ceiling, the amount of money the nation is legally allowed to borrow. ♪ oh, yeah, when it comes to raising the debt ceiling ♪ ♪ the president is having a hard time getting enough ♪ ♪ seems the gop ain't rubbing him the right way ♪ ♪ especially with the country's $16.4 trillion in debt. ♪ ♪ we're still in debt, but it's all right ♪ ♪ the united states really couldn't get any broker ♪ ♪ got to liquidate its assets just like al roker ♪ >> sometimes you feel bad for brian. last week, many criticized the military's decision to allow women to fight in combat roles. jon stewart explains the logic. >> there are certain facts ability upper body streng. 6'4", 240 pound marine and you are injured and you need the marine next to you to carry you back to safety and she weighs 115 pounds. it's irrelevant. we can't have women in combat because they are tiny. they are too delicate. they are little. they are wee little hands. they can barely -- have you ever seen them eat, they pick up a dinner roll. tiny sharp teeth, wait a minute, i'm thinking of mice. mice should not
debt ceiling, the amount of money the nation is legally allowed to borrow. ♪ oh, yeah, when it comes to raising the debt ceiling ♪ ♪ the president is having a hard time getting enough ♪ ♪ seems the gop ain't rubbing him the right way ♪ ♪ especially with the country's $16.4 trillion in debt. ♪ ♪ we're still in debt, but it's all right ♪ ♪ the united states really couldn't get any broker ♪ ♪ got to liquidate its assets just like al roker ♪ >> sometimes you feel...
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it raises the debt ceiling until february 7th and it asks the house and senate to have the budget report by december 13th and it allows treasury to use extraordinary measures and adds income verification to obama care. the house republicans got nothing in the deal after picking this fight to try and defund obama care. >> do people realize that they don't work the way they want it to. >> it all depends where you're living. >> i'm going to say that i don't think anybody believes that when you stand and fight on principle that you lose. >> i would hope that we learn from the past and employ different strategies and tactics that would be more successful in the future? >> is it short-term damage? is it long-term damage? >> we'll see. >> i want to bring in our company, roll calls, politics and editor. clarence paige, columnist for the chicago tribune. >> i want to start with some of the reflections that speaker boehner had in a radio interview yesterday afternoon. take a listen. >> we fought the good fight. we just didn't win. >> we fought the good fight. there's just no reason for our members
it raises the debt ceiling until february 7th and it asks the house and senate to have the budget report by december 13th and it allows treasury to use extraordinary measures and adds income verification to obama care. the house republicans got nothing in the deal after picking this fight to try and defund obama care. >> do people realize that they don't work the way they want it to. >> it all depends where you're living. >> i'm going to say that i don't think anybody believes...
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. >> let me move on to debt. this issue will continue and so will the issue on the debt. senator cruz, house republicans have taken a step back on this debt ceiling standoff. should it be raised. this is how "the new york times" described it over the weekend. i'll put it up on the screen and have you react to it. backing down from the hardline stance, house republicans said friday they would agree to lift the federal government's statuary borrowing limit for three months with a requirement that both chambers of the congress pass a budget in that time to clear the way for negotiations on long-term deficit reduction to add muscle to the efforts to bring democrats to the table, they would include a provision in the debt ceiling legislation saying that lawmakers will not be paid if they do not pass a budget blueprint. was it right to step back from challenging the president over raising the debt ceiling? >> well, i think the house proposal is a step in the right direction. no doubt the senate hasn't done it's job. it's been nearly four years since it's passed a budget. the se
. >> let me move on to debt. this issue will continue and so will the issue on the debt. senator cruz, house republicans have taken a step back on this debt ceiling standoff. should it be raised. this is how "the new york times" described it over the weekend. i'll put it up on the screen and have you react to it. backing down from the hardline stance, house republicans said friday they would agree to lift the federal government's statuary borrowing limit for three months with a...
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the debt ceiling was. >> fitch was looking at downgrading our credit rating, we saw this happen before. what was different this time? >> first of all, when the s&p downgraded the united states in july of 2011, there was always a equity sell-off but rates did not go up. everything people said would happen didn't happen. no matter what a few private rated agencies say, the world really does need u.s. treasury for the financial system to function right now. and unless we actually do default systemically, it doesn't matter what the agencies say. and that is what the world does, whether or not there's faith in our credibility. >> let me bring you in. a lot of people don't have faith in government. we know consumer confidence needs to be high for this recovery to continue. president has referred to it as being slow but it is certainly there. the housing market, for example, has been doing incredibly well considering all things considered there. but this was one of the things that would have been risky if we had gone into default. >> yeah, well, obviously because if we go into default and the
the debt ceiling was. >> fitch was looking at downgrading our credit rating, we saw this happen before. what was different this time? >> first of all, when the s&p downgraded the united states in july of 2011, there was always a equity sell-off but rates did not go up. everything people said would happen didn't happen. no matter what a few private rated agencies say, the world really does need u.s. treasury for the financial system to function right now. and unless we actually...
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on the debt ceiling, it made no sense to risk the full faith and credit of the united states for whatever agenda you have. the business community felt that. the public felt that. and so the fact that they have backed off both -- not only the idea that we should hold debt ceiling hostage, but second that it shouldn't be one for one cuts, you know, boehner used to say that, the house proposal doesn't say that, dollar in cutting for every dollar in raising the debt ceiling. >> would you support a short-term measure to force you to pass a budget? >> i think it should be longer because we don't want to play fiscal cliff every three months. but it's a positive step. >> will there are always spending reform measures and you never get a clean debt ceiling raise. >> yes, you should. >> that's not a question of whether you should. but historically it's not been the case. >> mitch mcconnell proposed it two years ago and we passed it. but let me say this on the budget. we democrats have always intended to do a budget this year. for two reasons. first, it is not true that we haven't had budget control
on the debt ceiling, it made no sense to risk the full faith and credit of the united states for whatever agenda you have. the business community felt that. the public felt that. and so the fact that they have backed off both -- not only the idea that we should hold debt ceiling hostage, but second that it shouldn't be one for one cuts, you know, boehner used to say that, the house proposal doesn't say that, dollar in cutting for every dollar in raising the debt ceiling. >> would you...
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ceiling issue. so we'll see but depending on how far this goes, we could be looking at some real electoral movement because of this. >> ester -- >> i'm sorry for not getting too far off the shutdown. >> you just taught me something new. overlooked and underplayed. i didn't know that. what else did i not know? >> definitely overlooked, so actually on friday adrian patterson who plays for the vikings, his son was killed and the young man charged with his killing has a history of domestic violence. october is awareness month. this is the month supposed to be about raising awareness around the degree to which intimate partner violence, women are killed, beaten, assaulted and there is a connection between that and the economy. violence has an economy. and the legacy of the 2008 collapse, the legacy of sequestration is shelters closing. not to say ceos and unfortunately beat women, too. it's sadly an equal opportunity crime. but the degree to which it's being underlooked, underplayed and not discussed is
ceiling issue. so we'll see but depending on how far this goes, we could be looking at some real electoral movement because of this. >> ester -- >> i'm sorry for not getting too far off the shutdown. >> you just taught me something new. overlooked and underplayed. i didn't know that. what else did i not know? >> definitely overlooked, so actually on friday adrian patterson who plays for the vikings, his son was killed and the young man charged with his killing has a...
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ceiling and the full faith and credit of the u.s., overwhelmingly agree with him on issues like taxes. 90% agree with him, for example, on universal background checks on the purchase of a weapon. it's very different from what happened with george bush when he won a very narrow victory in 2004 and then said he had a mandate and decided he had a mandate to privatize social security, which was deeply unpopular. the great strength of the president here is he knows what he wants to do, he's very focused, and he has the country with him. some of this stuff is going to be tough to get through congress and you may have to fight it in the midterms and beyond, but he's going to make real progress, i think, because of what he believes and because he's got the country with him. >> well, these are kind of fundamental issues for a president, guns and keeping the government going and fighting for his foreign policy team. it's not like he's looked for a fight. let's face it, newtown forced everybody to deal with this. >> newtown has changed everything. >> i don't think he's looking for a fight. i thi
ceiling and the full faith and credit of the u.s., overwhelmingly agree with him on issues like taxes. 90% agree with him, for example, on universal background checks on the purchase of a weapon. it's very different from what happened with george bush when he won a very narrow victory in 2004 and then said he had a mandate and decided he had a mandate to privatize social security, which was deeply unpopular. the great strength of the president here is he knows what he wants to do, he's very...
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are we going to face this again on february 6th as we go into the next deadline on the debt ceiling? >> i hope not. we are pleased with what's happened in the senate. they came to terms and convinced the speaker that we should take this up in the house, which is something we've been suggesting for a while. it's really a sad state of affairs, that government would be shutdown now for 16 days, that the full faith and credit of the united states of america would be in doubt, even for a moment. so it has taken its toll. what could come out of it is however enthusiastic we are about our issues and our point of view, that we don't hold the government hostage and the full faith and credit of the united states hostage. i think that hopefully that lesson was learned. it shouldn't have been anything that needed to be learned, but hopefully we've crossed that. the american people are fully aware of the consequences. >> this is basically a clean continuing resolution. why do you think john boehner did not bring it to the floor 16 days ago? >> i don't know. you really would have to ask him. i thi
are we going to face this again on february 6th as we go into the next deadline on the debt ceiling? >> i hope not. we are pleased with what's happened in the senate. they came to terms and convinced the speaker that we should take this up in the house, which is something we've been suggesting for a while. it's really a sad state of affairs, that government would be shutdown now for 16 days, that the full faith and credit of the united states of america would be in doubt, even for a...
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we can't have every three month a debt ceiling crisis. someone is going to have to come up with some way from stopping these people from being drama kings and drama queens. >> drama's out. >> is that your headline? >> mine is basically with a call for unity, obama presses assertive domestic agenda. i don't expect him to tick off the details, for example, of gun regulation. he already did that last week, but i think he is going to use the bully pulpit here for the idea that he can really lead us to more action on the domestic front in congress. >> and one other point. the facetious headline i came up with him being born in the united states. we need to get past all this. it's time to stop this because it's counterproductive and it's causing a paralysis. >> and i would briefly say it's not that we need to get past it, we have to call out who is responsible for t.only one group that's still trading in birtherism, it's a one-sided problem. >> i'd like, to if we could, pull up your headline again. i don't know if we can do that. >> yes, sir. >
we can't have every three month a debt ceiling crisis. someone is going to have to come up with some way from stopping these people from being drama kings and drama queens. >> drama's out. >> is that your headline? >> mine is basically with a call for unity, obama presses assertive domestic agenda. i don't expect him to tick off the details, for example, of gun regulation. he already did that last week, but i think he is going to use the bully pulpit here for the idea that he...
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be with the white house. >> is there some glimmer of hope that you mentioned the debt ceiling right at the beginning, if we go for a shutdown, if that actually happens, does that paradoxically make hitting the debt ceiling and not raising the debt ceiling a little less likely. >> yes. >> we have the fight over the shutdown. >> i think that when there are negotiations and i do believe they're inevitable, i would like to think in a benign world which we may not be living in, it all gets wrapped together and whatever gets resolved takes the debt ceiling off the table because that's a really, really disastrous scenario and which in one obama has rightly or wrongly said i'm not negotiates over that. if he negotiates over the cr and gets something done that then ob vee yates the debt ceiling problem that would be as good an outcome as you can imagine. >> dream on. >> i like to dream. >> he's got charts for us on this coming up. >> we're trying. we're trying. coming up on "morning joe," senator chuck schumer says fanatics have taken over the republican party. we'll talk to him in a bit. bo
be with the white house. >> is there some glimmer of hope that you mentioned the debt ceiling right at the beginning, if we go for a shutdown, if that actually happens, does that paradoxically make hitting the debt ceiling and not raising the debt ceiling a little less likely. >> yes. >> we have the fight over the shutdown. >> i think that when there are negotiations and i do believe they're inevitable, i would like to think in a benign world which we may not be living...